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Chapter 1 |
| 1 | The vision of
Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days
of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. |
| 2 | Hear, O
heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and
brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. |
| 3 | The ox knoweth
his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people
doth not consider. |
| 4 | Ah sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken
the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone
away backward. |
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5 | Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt
more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. |
| 6 |
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but
wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither
bound up, neither mollified with ointment. |
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7 | Your country is desolate,
your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your
presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. |
| 8 | And the
daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of
cucumbers, as a besieged city. |
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9 | Except the LORD of hosts had left unto
us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been
like unto Gomorrah. |
| 10 | Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of
Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. |
| 11 | To
what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am
full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight
not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. |
| 12 | When ye
come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my
courts? |
| 13
| Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination
unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away
with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. |
| 14 | Your new
moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I
am weary to bear them. |
| 15 | And when ye spread forth your hands, I will
hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your
hands are full of blood. |
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16 | Wash you, make you clean; put away the
evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; |
| 17 |
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow. |
| 18 | Come now, and let us reason together, saith
the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. |
| 19 | If ye be
willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: |
| 20 | But if
ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the
LORD hath spoken it. |
| 21 | How is the faithful city become an harlot!
it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
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| 22 | Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: |
| 23 | Thy
princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and
followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause
of the widow come unto them. |
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24 | Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of
hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and
avenge me of mine enemies: |
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25 | And I will turn my hand upon thee, and
purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: |
| 26 | And I will
restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning:
afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful
city. |
| 27 |
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
righteousness. |
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28 | And the destruction of the transgressors and of the
sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be
consumed. |
| 29
| For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have
desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
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| 30 | For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath
no water. |
| 31
| And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. |
